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The Paseo YMCA opened in 1914, when Julius Rosenwald encouraged Kansas Citians to raise $80,000 toward building a new YMCA. [2] The architect of the Paseo YMCA was local architect Charles A. Smith. In 1920 eight independent black baseball team owners met to form what would become the Negro National League. [3] The facility closed in the 1970s.
YWCA USA was founded as the Young Women's Christian Association in New York City in 1858. In 1905, the Harlem YWCA hired the first Black woman general secretary of a local YWCA branch, Eva del Vakia Bowles. Bowles joined the national association as the head of "colored programs" in 1913 and remained in that capacity until 1932. [2]
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Saint Luke's College of Health Sciences, Kansas City Missouri. University of Missouri, Kansas City, Mo, one of four University of Missouri campuses, serving more than 14,000 undergraduates; University of Saint Mary, Leavenworth, Ks; Webster University, Kansas City, Mo, founded in 1915, in Kansas City since 1972. Evening programs for adult ...
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Downtown Kansas City is the central business district (CBD) of Kansas City, Missouri and the Kansas City metropolitan area which contains 3.8% of the area's employment. [1] It is between the Missouri River in the north, to 31st Street in the south; and from the Kansas–Missouri state line eastward to Bruce R. Watkins Drive as defined by the Downtown Council of Kansas City; [2] the 2010 ...
The Paseo (also known as Paseo Boulevard, or Paseo) is a major north–south parkway in Kansas City, Missouri. As the city's first major boulevard, it runs approximately 10 miles (16 km) (85 blocks) through the center of the city: from Cliff Drive and Lexington Avenue on the bluffs above the Missouri River in the Pendleton Heights historic ...
Kansas City, Missouri (KC or KCMO) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri by population and area. The city lies within Jackson, Clay, Platte counties, and a small portion in Cass County. It is the central city of the Kansas City metropolitan area, which straddles the Missouri–Kansas state line and has a population of 2,392,035.